Ron DeSantis abandons Republican primary and supports Trump

taketonews

The Republican fight to win the presidential nomination for November is now only thing of two: Donald Trump and Nikki Haley. Forida Governor Ron DeSantis announced this Sunday that throw in the towel and suspends his candidacy and has given his support for the former president.

He did it six days after finishing second in Iowa, 30 points behind Trump, and a couple of days before he voted. New Hampshire, a state even less favorable to his political proposal. In the polls he wasor below 6% and he had decided not to even campaign there, betting on future appointments that for him, at least in 2024, will never come.

DeSantis has made his announcement official, after a few hours of speculation, in a four and a half minute video posted on X, the old Twitter, in whose “spaces” disastrously launched his candidacy in May of last year. In his message this Sunday, recorded from Tallahasee, the capital of Florida, he assumed “not having a clear path to victory”. And he has given his support to Trump, the man who has been insulting him for months, disqualifying him with nicknames like “DeSanturrón” and calling him disloyal.

“I am clear that a majority of Republican primary voters want to give Trump another chance”, said the former candidate, who has accused the Democrats of using “lawfare” against a former president who sees preferable to “the old republican guard of yesteryear””, a dart towards Haley, who has assured that it represents “a repackaged form of overheated corporatism.”

His message has been accompanied in X by a quote, which he also mentions in the video, which he has attributed to Winston Churchill (“success is not definitive, failure is not fatal, it is the courage to continue that counts”). But both a historian specializing in the famous British prime minister and a researcher at the International Churchill Society have ruled out that the quote can be attributed to him.

Trump and Haley reactions

trump has reacted by declaring in a statement “honored” of having the support of DeSantis, also taking the opportunity to attack his former ambassador to the United Nations, whom he has called “candidate of the globalists and democrats “They will do everything possible to stop the America First movement.”

haley, for its part, received the news by assuring at an event in New Hampshire that DeSantis has had “a good race.” He has also said, as later in a statement, that he “has been a good governor.” “We are not a country of coronations”, the former governor of South Carolina has also declared. “Voters deserve to be able to decide if we continue down the path of Trump and (Joe) Biden again or if we take a new conservative path.”

Meteoric rise, dizzying fall

DeSantis’ withdrawal has ended a presidential race that has seen a rise as meteoric as dizzying has been the fall, although doing it so early could be an attempt by the politician to 45 years and those who support him save political capital to try again for a candidacy in 2028. Trump, if he beat Biden in November, would only be able to have one term after having already been in the Oval Office for four years.

For months, and especially after his resounding re-election in November 2022 as governor of Florida, DeSantis saw himself as a alternative to trump and attracted important donors, who wanted to see him like him future of the Republican Party.

His proposal for these elections was an agenda if possible more ultraconservative than that of the former president but not his discipline or legal problems (although Trump has managed to skillfully turn them into an electoral asset). He also sold his executive action in Florida.

There he soon broke into pandemic with lockdown policies, school closures and mandates, selling Florida as a state of “freedom”, in the style of Isabel Ayuso in Madrid. She has fought against immigrationchartering buses and even planes for immigrants to towns governed by Democrats, and has freed culture wars against everything that is called “woke up” on issues of race, gender and identity. This has included book vetoes, staunch defense of the so-called “parental rights”; and a battle with corporations, especially notable in the case of Disney for criticizing its law known as ‘Don’t say gay’.

The big problem that has been found in these primaries is that His natural voters were the same as Trump’s and many wondered why vote for a candidate with political proposals very similar to the former president when he is running in the same race. The governor had won on the issue of abortion to some ultra-Orthodox Christians, who believe that Trump’s position against it is not strong enough and has not said that he would support a total federal veto or a six-week one like the one DeSantis signed in Florida. He had also won voters among those who question the former president for how he responded to the coronavirus and for not having fired Dr. Anthony Fauci. But he has fallen crushed by evidence of Trump’s overwhelming support.

DeSantis has also accumulated other challenges and has had deep mistakes in his campaign. Although his wife Casey was active in political events and has been his main media advisor, he has difficulties in short distances and some robotic shapes.

Related news

Furthermore, he recently acknowledged that he was wrong to evade the general press for monthslimiting himself to conservative media, some of which welcomed him with open arms, such as FoxNews, but they soon closed ranks around Trump again.

Furthermore, the clashes between his campaign and that of the main super political action committee who supported him have been reported, with information about meetings in which it almost reaches the fists. Everything has been turbulence, changes in leadership and in the teams that have scared away donors. And the cash drain had already begun to leave their coffers empty.



ttn-24